The poll offered contradictory evidence on this point.
The poll offered good news for Apple, however, as participants voted the iPhone into first place.
The polls offer little help in sorting things out.
In addition, even the current figure drops further, to about 55 percent, when the polls offer life imprisonment without parole as an alternative.
An informal poll of more than 30 publishing houses offered a picture of general trends for this fall.
Still, the polls conducted last week hardly offer the final verdict on the conventions.
The poll offered a few bright spots for the Governor.
In fact, several recent polls offer signs of the strengths and weaknesses of both candidates.
Municipal polls held on Jan. 19 offered the first opportunity to vote in multiparty elections.
But over all, the poll offered a portrait of a public rendering complex judgments.